About

Foursquare is a New York City-based company with a technology platform and various other products designed to utilize the location of users for advertising and consumer purposes.In addition to its headquarters, the company has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Singapore.Companies that use Foursquare's technology include Uber, Tencent, Apple, Samsung, and Twitter.

Product

The company has two mobile applications, both of which are available for Android and iOS. The first app is called 'Swarm' and can be utilized to 'check-in' at locations so that users can show others where they are located. Users can earn badgers and mayorships depending on where they go. It is intended to be used as 'lifelogging' and users can take a picture as a memory of the time they visited a place.

Foursquare's other app is called 'City Guide' and allows for users to enter their location and what they are looking for in the city, such as restaurants or shopping. The app will show places that meet the users criteria in the form of a ranking. Users can also see where the establishments are on a map and get directions.

The company also offers other technology products that are intended for business purposes for professions such as developers, marketers, and analysts. The products utilize location technology and data for marketing purposes and can be used for media planning as well.

Companies

News

Ten years later, Foursquare is far past its scrappy consumer days as it builds out its B2B services, but its latest announcement is thrusting it back into the scrappy consumer business. Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley announced that the company is launching a free version of their Pilgrim SDK, which allows [...]

Foursquare just made its first acquisition. The location tech company has acquired Placed from Snap Inc on the heels of a fresh $150 million investment led by the Raine Group. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Placed founder and CEO David Shim will become President of Foursquare. Placed is the biggest competitor to [...]

The role of Product Manager can mean very different things at various companies. Should a product manager be technical? Scientific? Opinionated? J Crowley has run product at three big-name companies. At Foursquare, he led the rebuild of Swarm after a rocky initial launch and eventually became Head of Product. He then moved on to Blue [...]

Ten years after the launch of Foursquare at SXSW, the company is laying its technology bare with a futuristic version of its old app that doesn't require a check-in at all. The godfather of location apps is returning to the launchpad with Hypertrending, but this time it hopes to learn what de...

Foursquare, the former location-based social network turned enterprise location data platform, has today announced a new partnership with TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor will be using Foursquare's Pilgrim SDK, launched in March 2017, to help the platform better serve users with contextually relevant...